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10:1  “I ·hate [am disgusted with] my life, so I will ·complain without holding back [L abandon myself to my sighs]; I will speak ·because I am so unhappy [L in my bitterness].
10:2  I will say to God: Do not ·hold [declare] me guilty, but tell me ·what you have against [why you accuse] me.
10:3  ·Does it make you happy [or Is it right for you] to ·trouble [oppress] me? ·Don’t you care about [L Must you despise] me, the work of your hands? ·Are you happy with [or Do you favor] the plans of evil people?
10:4  Do you have ·human eyes [L eyes of flesh] that see ·as we see [L with human vision]?
10:5  Are your days like the days of humans, and your years like our years?
10:6  [L For] You ·look for the evil I have done [L investigate my transgression] and search for my sin.
10:7  You know I am not guilty, but no one can ·save [rescue] me from your ·power [L hand].
10:8  “Your hands shaped and made me. Do you now turn around and ·destroy [L swallow] me?
10:9  Remember that you molded me like a piece of clay. Will you now turn me back into dust [Gen. 2:7; Eccl. 12:7]?
10:10  ·You formed me inside my mother like cheese formed from milk [L Do you not pour me out like milk, curdle me like cheese?].
10:11  You dressed me with skin and flesh; you ·sewed [knit] me together with bones and ·muscles [sinews].
10:12  You gave me life and showed me ·kindness [loyalty], and in your care you ·watched over my life [L set a watch over me].
10:13  “But in your heart you hid ·other plans [L these things]. I know this was in your mind.
10:14  If I sinned, you would watch me and would not ·let my sin go unpunished [L declare me innocent of my transgression].
10:15  ·How terrible it will be for [L Woe to] me if I am guilty! Even if I am ·right [righteous], I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and ·experience [L look on] only ·pain [affliction].
10:16  ·If I hold up my head, you hunt me like a lion [or Proud like a lion you hunt me] and again show your terrible power against me.
10:17  You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger against me. Your armies come against me.
10:18  “So why did you ·allow me to be born [L bring me out of the womb]? ·I wish I had died [L Why did I not die…?] before ·anyone [L any eye] saw me.
10:19  I wish I had never lived, but had been carried straight from ·birth [L womb] to the grave.
10:20  The few days of my life are almost over. Leave me alone so I can have a moment of joy [Eccl. 2:24–26; 3:12–14, 22; 8:15; 5:19–20; 9:7–10].
10:21  Soon I will leave; I will not return from the land of darkness and gloom,
10:22  the land of ·darkest night [or dimness and blackness], from the land of gloom and ·confusion [chaos], where even the light is darkness.”